QOTD: Are You Loyal to Any Specific Company?
There are always companies out there that we like and then ones that we dislike. We all have our own reasons.
Some companies make great products, some companies have great customer service. We all tend to gravitate towards a certain number of companies, and we trust (hope) that whatever they come out with will be worth our hard earned dollar. Sometimes, something bad happens and causes us to jump ship, switching to a competitor and never looking back.
Maybe a company has deceived you, or didn't come through for you in one reason or another. Or maybe you have a company that you feel you can always rely on and has yet to let you down.
The question of the day is: Are you loyal to any specific company?
If so, which company and why?
We've all been burned by one company or another.

And i just flow between Asus and Gigabyte mobo's
Nvidia vs ATI i side with Nvidia out of i don't find ati's drivers and software all that friendly sounds odd but it's that coupled with really frustrating expriences with the 2000's series and 256 colors, had a card die in about 3 years it's a good run but really i never want a gpu to ever die out. Also just so happens green is my favorite color is red is my least favorite
Oh yeah am I'm 100% time buy pc power and cooling psu's with single rail 12v can't go wrong with a legend like them
I have alot of perfences.
I also don't tend to buy from wasteful or anticompetitive companies, such as Apple (needing to buy a new screen for every iMac, instead of just new components) or Sony (memory sticks?).
Basically, I look at quality, price and market share, and try to determine which company really deserves my money the most.
I do have some preferences ofcourse, if price is the same I'll get AMD/ATi based products to support the "underdog". That goes for CPUs, chipsets (MBOs), and graphics cards. But if Intel has way more competitive product, ofcourse I'll buy it. As for manufacturers that produce boards (either motherboards or gpahics cards) I've got no real preference. I know 95% of them are mostly the same. I try to stay with quality brands for MBOs (Gigabyte for example), but if I'm building cheap (non-gaming) home/office PCs I'll buy ASRock (for example) without any problems. After all, they're ASUStek child company, so they can't be bad.. and they always offer good quality for the money they ask from me.
So yeah.. if you offer good product for a low price, I'm all yours. Loyality be-gone!
I liked IBM laptops but Lenovo not always fallows the tradition and I try not to buy China (PRC) products
When I buy things I use experience (I like ATI and there products (not AMD CPU)) but this is just a factor to consider in the end price/value is always dominant.
ATI's gaining a lot of ground after replacing my 9800GT with a 4870 and seeing everything improve. nVidia's plan to rebadge g92 cards didn't help my opinion of them either, even if they did back down from that when it was leaked. They don't seem far from their MX440 days where new products are less capable than the old by design. I swore off ATI with the 9600's due to endless driver issues, but the new ones don't seem to have that problem since AMD's taken over.
They don't dumb down their products, and now that they have branched out into many fields, they still keep to that principle.
I have an assortment of Samsung screens, which are all good. Logitech for my mouse (G5 2007) and keyboard (cordless MX duo), as well as my racing wheel - a G25, and spare mouse - a G9.
Graphics card from XFX if it's nVidia, or Sapphire if it's ATi. Canon for printers and cameras - i have an IXUS70 (7mp p&s) and a 400D, or rebel xti to you Americans..
Dell business laptops are the only way to go for laptops. good price, good parts replacement program, decent laptops, no glitz on the business ones, unlike toshiba laptops which make me feel nauseous with all the lights and 'molten plastic'.
Oh, and swifttech and dangerden for most of my water cooling gear.